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George Leopold

George Leopold has written about science and technology for more than 30 years, focusing on electronics and aerospace technology. He previously served as executive editor of Electronic Engineering Times. Leopold is the author of "Calculated Risk: The Supersonic Life and Times of Gus Grissom" (Purdue University Press, 2016).

Updated: AT&T, Dell Partner to Advance 5G Cloud

August 15th, 2019 (0)

AT&T added to its growing list of 5G wireless partnerships this week, announcing collaboration with Dell Technologies to develop “cloud-oriented 5G” wireless infrastructure built upon an open source tools used to automate cloud provisioning. Among the goals of this ...

AI Agent Provides Rationale Behind Decisions

August 14th, 2019 (0)

Frameworks for explaining the rationales underlying AI-based decisions continue to make progress in the form of an AI agent that attempts to provide straightforward English explanations in a readily interpretable form. Eventually, users could seek alternative explanations. (See also ...

Cisco Adds AI-Based Meeting Transcriber

August 13th, 2019 (0)

Cisco Systems is beefing up its Webex collaboration platform with new AI and automated speech recognition tools acquired through its purchase of Voicea, an AI-based transcription and voice search specialist. Webex is the keystone of Cisco’s Cognitive Collaboration portfolio ...

Silicon Switching Shakes Up Datacenter Market

August 12th, 2019 (0)

Recent jockeying within the datacenter networking market underscores the steady shift toward Ethernet-based silicon switching as Intel, Nvidia and others vie to unclog networking bottlenecks and perhaps challenge market leader Broadcom. Those key silicon vendors along with Arista and ...

Kubernetes Gets Security Audit

August 9th, 2019 (0)

An open source group is expanding its third-party security audits to include the popular but vulnerable Kubernetes cluster orchestrator. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) announced this week it would add Kubernetes to its pilot program of public security ...

Another Week, Another Kubernetes Security Flaw

August 8th, 2019 (0)

The latest security vulnerability discovered within the Kubernetes cluster orchestrator could allow intruders to access, modify or delete computing and storage resources configured across a cluster. The flaw in the Kubernetes server API, designated CVE-2019-11247, allows access and deletion ...

AMD, HPE Team to Top Server Benchmarks

August 7th, 2019 (0)

Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Advanced Micro Devices are claiming a batch of benchmark performance records for HPE servers equipped with AMD’s latest Epyc processor. The virtualization performance and power efficiency world records announced this week were achieved on HPE ...

Kubernetes Developer Mesosphere Rebrands as D2iQ

August 5th, 2019 (0)

Kubernetes, the de facto standard cluster orchestrator, continues to transform an expanding ecosystem of enterprise cloud vendors to the point where some are changing their identity to reflect the steady shift to cloud native and open source tools aimed ...

Google Cloud Adds VMware Options

August 1st, 2019 (0)

Google continues to expand its cloud offerings for priority enterprise workloads with the addition of VMware virtualization options. The partners announced this week VMware’s Cloud Foundation will be supported on Google Cloud as both infrastructure vendors look to expand ...

Intel Omni-Path Interconnect: One and Done